Raoultella
| Raoultella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacteriales |
| Family: | Enterobacteriaceae |
| Genus: |
Raoultella Drancourt et al., 2001 |
| Species | |
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Raoultella electrica |
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Raoultella electrica
Raoultella ornithinolytica
Raoultella planticola
Raoultella terrigena
The genus Raoultella is composed of Gram-negative, oxidase-negative, aerobic, nonmotile, capsulated, facultatively anaerobic rods (formerly designated Klebsiella) in the family Enterobacteriaceae. It is named after the French bacteriologist Didier Raoult.
Members of genus Raoultella grow at 10 °C consistent with their recovery from plants, soil, and water, whereas members of Klebsiella ( is an exception, and a proposal to classify K. oxytoca in a separate, unnamed genus has been made). do not grow at 10 °C and are mainly recovered from mammals' mucosae.
It consists of species Raoultella electrica, , Raoultella planticola and Raoultella terrigena.
A phylogenetic tree of Klebsiella, based on a 2.93-Mbp alignment, unambiguously places R. ornithinolytica sister to K. oxytoca within the larger Klebsiella phylogeny and suggests abandoning the Raoultella genus designation.
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